An encyclopaedia is a compendium of knowledge that we regard as a source of reliable and credible information. A dataset against which we can confront our doubts. A sure shot. But what if a single, smallest error sneaks into something certain and irrefutable? Doesn't this cast doubt on the rest and render the whole thing useless?

"Encyclopaedia" is a project that consists of several hundred fake entries, from different places and different periods of time, illustrated with stock photographs manipulated by me and images created with the help of AI. Fictitious entries are deliberately incorrect entries in encyclopedias, dictionaries or lexicons placed by editors as protection against plagiarism. These range from those that immediately make us doubt their veracity, to those that would probably go unnoticed by most people. Usually these are single entries, although there have been publications with up to several dozen such 'mistakes'. 

Intentionally placing false information in texts that are intended to expand knowledge or verify facts may raise a lot of controversy. On the other hand, we live in times of manipulation, where it is common to publish edited photographs, and soon it will be equally common to generate AI images as illustrations for articles or daily news. Knowledge becomes something volatile and uncertain, and we are left with the daily search for what is true.